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SPORTS MEETING

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Holiday

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Corps Basd

The Band will parade for Band Practice in mufti at Corps Headquar ters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Mounted Infantry Company Thursday. Parade at Causeway Bay Stables at 5.30 p.m. for Pack- saddle Drill.

Car Section

A meeting of N.C.O.'s will be held at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. All NC.O's on Friday, July 5. should make a special reffort to be present.

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STINK BOMBS AND LIVE MICE

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Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. at Corps Head-Silver (per oz.)

quartery,

sidearms.

Dress: Mufti, belt

N.C.D.'s Class.

Instructor's Class will be held on Friday, July 5, at 6.30 p.m. at Corps Headquarters. Dress: Mufti.

Scottish Company

The Pines

pes and Drums will parade at Corps Headquarters at C p.m. on Wednesday for practise.

Portuguese Company

re-

Peak Range. Al ranks are minded that The Peak Range has been allotted to the Company on Sun- Firing will commence at 9 a.m. day. sharp.

Rifles and Bayonets. All rifles and bayonets usel on Sunday must be re- turned to store immediately after- wards.

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Strength

have been The following recruits taken on the strength and posted as under:

No: 1484 Pte. Cesta, R.E., No. 10 Platcon, as from June 21.

No. 1485 Pte. Mendes, F.C., No. 10 Platoon, as from June 21.

Reversion

No. 1131 L/Corp). G. A. Ribeiro, No. 10 Platoon reverts to the ranks at his own request, as from June 21. Leave

No. 1185 Sergeant A. W. Hayward, No. 1 Platoon granted leave to Unit- ed Kingdom, from June 24, 1929 to June 28, 1930.

Strack Off the Strength

as from Having left the Colony, June 21:

No. 1145 Pte. C. A. Robarts, No. 13 Platoon.

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when fed with a little thyroid tissue It is developing lungs and becoming! He altogether a different animal. cited the doubling of the size of rats, and the changing of the sex In frogs and birds.

ALL GENIUSES AND NO ILLNESS!

"You shall be as the gods," is the

"These," sald Dr. Riddle, almost promise of Dr. Oscar Riddle, of the corremptuously "are the work of Carnegie Laboratary, Cold Spring. yesterday. But to-day and to Harbour, New York State, who inmorrow, there is and will be a direct an address to the American Philoso-attack on the control of the struc- phical Society at Philadelphia, said tural characteristics of man." that the science of to-morrow will How this will be achieved in be able to produce a race of men detail Dr. Riddle did not explain, immune from disease and endowed but he hinted that it would be neces- with genius,

sary to work for this future great- This new stature in the life of

ness of man through parents and man will be attained by the use through the childhood of individuals. of "supermedicine" derived from To produce the necessary changes in knowledge now being gained the race it will be necessary to bring through experiments on other about specific changes before birth, animals, experiments which Dr. in childhood, during adolescence and Riddle explained, have completely some in later life."

life

of certain

of

changed the nature

It will be a recurrent work" animals, birds, and insects in the concluded Dr. Riddle "neces- laboratory

sary in every generation, just as is physical the work of education and "The capacity for growth, continued the American, medicine." scientist, will doubtless first be exercised by doctors on those of small stature, and later there is every reason to expect that they will be able to add a cubit or two to the height of everyone.

A Little Thyroid

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